Pablo Picasso born - Oct 25, 1881 - HISTORY.com Pablo Picasso born Publisher A+E Networks Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, is born in Malaga, Spain. Picasso’s father was a professor of drawing, and he bred his son for a career in academic art. Picasso had his first exhibit at age 13 and later quit art school so he could experiment full-time with modern art styles. He went to Paris for the first time in 1900, and in 1901 was given an exhibition at a gallery on Paris’ rue Lafitte, a street known for its prestigious art galleries. The precocious 19-year-old Spaniard was at the time a relative unknown outside Barcelona, but he had already produced hundreds of paintings. Winning favorable reviews, he stayed in Paris for the rest of the year and later returned to the city to settle permanently. The work of Picasso, which comprises more than 50,000 paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, and ceramics produced over 80 years, is described in a series of overlapping periods.

His first notable period–the “blue period”—began shortly after his first Paris exhibit. In works such as The Old Guitarist (1903), Picasso painted in blue tones to evoke the melancholy world of the poor. The blue period was followed by the “rose period,” in which he often depicted circus scenes, and then by Picasso’s early work in sculpture. In 1907, Picasso painted the groundbreaking work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, which, with its fragmented and distorted representation of the human form, broke from previous European art. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon demonstrated the influence on Picasso of both African mask art and Paul Cezanne and is seen as a forerunner of the Cubist movement, founded by Picasso and the French painter Georges Braque in 1909. In Cubism, which is divided into two phases, analytical and synthetic, Picasso and Braque established the modern principle that artwork need not represent reality to have artistic value. Major Cubist works by Picasso included his costumes and sets for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes (1917) and The Three Musicians (1921).

Picasso and Braque’s Cubist experiments also resulted in the invention of several new artistic techniques, including collage. After Cubism, Picasso explored classical and Mediterranean themes, and images of violence and anguish increasingly appeared in his work. In 1937, this trend culminated in the masterpiece Guernica, a monumental work that evoked the horror and suffering endured by the Basque town of Guernica when it was destroyed by German war planes during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation but was fervently opposed to fascism and after the war joined the French Communist Party. Picasso’s work after World War II is less studied than his earlier creations, but he continued to work feverishly and enjoyed commercial and critical success. He produced fantastical works, experimented with ceramics, and painted variations on the works of other masters in the history of art. Known for his intense gaze and domineering personality, he had a series of intense and overlapping love affairs in his lifetime. He continued to produce art with undiminished force until his death in 1973 at the age of 91.

Related Videos Pablo Picasso Barcelona Barcelona > Pablo Picasso Barcelona Pablo Picasso in Barcelona Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in the South of Spain in 1881, and spent most of his life in France, after moving to Paris in 1905; however it was in Barcelona that Spain's greatest artist spent his formative years, and it was Barcelona, perhaps more than anywhere else, that Picasso considered his home. The man who gave birth to the Cubism movement, and became the most famous and influential artist of the 20th Century, learned to sketch before he learned how to speak - thanks to his parent's influence. Picasso's father was a talented painter, as well as an art teacher, and his son picked up a pencil in his early years to begin a lifelong love of drawing, painting and art. Indeed such was the young Pablo's talent that by the age of 13, the father judged his son to have surpassed him, prompting Picasso senior to give up painting.

Picasso's early life was peripatetic: in 1891, at the age of 10, Picasso and his family moved to Corunna in Galicia as his father was appointed teacher at the Guarda School of Fine Arts. Picasso himself was allowed to enrol a year later and so began his academic career. Four years later, in 1895, the family moved again, this time east to Barcelona, with both father and son transfering to the Llotja School of Fine Arts as teacher and student respectively. Barcelona had a profound effect on the teenage artist. The bustling industrialist Catalan capital was in a period of huge growth, embracing progressive ideas about art and society as it raced towards the 20th century. The always prolific artist created thousands of sketches and paintings with the city as his muse, many of which can be seen at Barcelona's Picasso Museum today. Above: Picasso self-portrait during his Blue Period in Barcelona. Picasso's new life in Barcelona was soon interrupted in 1897 by two years spent in Madrid, after his father requested he attend the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, considered the best in Spain.

But by now the strong-willed youngster was already showing a dislike of formal studies and the 16-year-old rarely attended classes, preferring to stroll the corridors of El Prado Museum instead where he would spend hours studying the works of master painters such as Valezquez, Goya and El Greco. All played a major role in influencing Picasso's work. When Picasso returned to Barcelona in 1899, he drew a line under his academic career and his artistic career began in earnest. He began to frequent the, now famous, Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats) cafe , where he would meet with other artists, and avant-garde thinkers (and drinkers) and became part of Barcelona's Bohemian set. In 1900 he staged his first individual exhibition at the Cats. In the same year he made his first trip to Paris, for the Universal Exhibition, and was inspired by the avant garde works of Cezanne, Matisse, and the Fauvist movement which was taking place at the time.

After a brief, second stint in Madrid (where he illustrated the journal Arte Joven, a joint effort with Francesc d'Assis Soler which survived for just five issues), Picasso returned again to Barcelona and entered the period of artistic activity known as the Blue Period, his first departure from a more realistic style of painting. During this time, split between Paris and Spain, Picasso painted almost solely in blues tones creating a series of painting that were acutely sombre and mournful in tone, but exquisitely beautiful at the same time. Virtually all of the images he painted during the Blue Period, friends, beggars, prostitutes and landscapes were inspired by Barcelona, and thankfully the city's Picasso Museum has a good selection from this time - such as the Blue Portait of Jaume Sabartï¿½s, Motherhood and Barcelona Rooftops. in 1905 Picasso left Barcelona, this time permanently, for Paris, but even so the city managed to influence the artist from afar.

Indeed one of his seminal works, considered by many to be the very first example of Cubist painting was a depiction of prostitutes at a whorehouse on Carrer D'Avinyo, a street in Barcelona's Barri Gotic (admittedly not the most salubrious association for a city to boast, but still...). Picasso referred to the painting as El Bordel (the Brothel), but was later dubbed the Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (the Ladies of D'Avinyo). And although he never returned to Catalonia, or indeed Spain, to live Picasso frequently visited Barcelona, often choosing to holiday with friends nearby on the coast. However in 1939 Franco emerged victorious in the Spanish Civil War and Picasso swore never to set foot in Spain whilst the fascist dictator still ruled the country. Sadly for Picasso - and Spain - Franco ruled until his death in 1975. Picasso died two years earlier in 1973, aged 91. Picasso Museum Barcelona The Picasso Museum is standing tribute to the artist's close relationship with the city of his adolescence and naturally the essential starting point for any fans wanting to explore the artist's life and works.

It opened in 1963 and was set up during his lifetime, according to his wishes, by his friend and personal secretary, Jaume Sabartï¿½s. The museum's collection at that time was comprised of Sabartï¿½s's personal collection along with Picasso's works which he'd donated to the Barcelona Museums of Art. (Indeed when it first opened, the museum was called the Sabartes Collection, principally because Picasso was an outspoken critic of Franco and so it was impossible to open such a large public building under his name whilst the Fascist dictator still ruled.) Later, after the death of Sabartes in 1968 and on several other occasions, Picasso donated a large number of works himself (and let's not forget that Picasso once quipped: "I am the greatest collector of Picassos in the world."). Other private collectors and relations of Picasso have also augmented the museum's collection. Today the Picasso Museum has over 3,800 works by the artist and is especially rich in Pablo's earlier artistic forays, from when he served his apprenticeship right up to the Blue Period.

Fans of Cubism might be slightly disappointed as the museum can't boast anywhere near the representation that Paris' Picasso Museum holds, but rather Barcelona's tribute represents a biography of the early years of the man from Malaga, as well as an overview of his life journey and many stylistic evolutions in the field of art. C/Montcada 15-23 Picasso' Barcelona Picasso had several apartments and studios when he was living and working in Barcelona, some of which have since been bulldozed over in the name of progress. Your best resource for key addresses is the excellent website of the Picasso Museum which has the authoritative chronology of Picasso in Barcelona here .

You can't visit any of his flats or workshops, but here are a couple of relevant stopping points on the Picasso trail for you to enjoy: Els Quatre Gats Opened in 1897, the Four Cats tavern was established by the Catalan artist Ramon Casas and his friend Pere Romeu (indeed the two men are the subject of the famous painting by Casas himself, ingeniously entitled Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem - you can see the original in the MNAC , whilst a copy hangs in Els Quatre Gats). It was Barcelona's answer to Paris' famous Le Chat Noir cabaret and nightclub in Montmatre and a sounding board and meeting place for avant garde artists and writers to exchange ideas, normally over one too many glasses of wine. When Picasso rejected academic studies of art in 1899, returning from Madrid to Barcelona, he fell in with the forward thinking set that called The Four Cats their second home. Known as modernistes or decadentes, this community turned to French art nouveau, distinguished by sinuous contour lines, simplified shapes and pastel colours to move away from a realistic representation of the subjects of their art.

Adopting their style, the young Picasso (yet to turn 20) sketched and painted numerous portraits of his friends from Els Quatre Gats - among them Carles Casagemas and Jaime Sabartï¿½s - and many of these works were included in his first solo exhibition, which opened at the tavern in February 1900. As with many bars run by Bohemians and not businessmen the Cats didn't last long, closing in 1903. However when Franco died the cafe was acquired by a group of restauranteurs who re-opened the Four Cats in the original spirit of the place. Naturally it's a bit of a tourist trap these days, particularly after Woody Allen increased its allure by featuring the restaurant in his movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona, however the Modernista look, inside and out (the building was designed by famous Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch) makes it well worth dropping by. If nothing else to check out the menu, the cover of which was drawn by Picasso himself.

C/Montsio 3 National Museum of Catalan Art This treasure trove of art from antiquity to near-present only holds one work by Pablo Ruiz i Picasso, but it's a good one: The Woman With Hat and Fur Coat, was painted in 1937 in Paris and is a prime example of 'The Picasso style' of Cubism, with a frontal and profile view merged into one image. Parc de Montjuï¿½c Tel: +34 (93) 6220360 Barcelona Ceramics Museum Intrigued by all forms of art, Picasso dabbled in ceramics as well as painting, drawing and sculpture, often to dazzling effect. This museum in the Royal Palace of Pedralbes Palace on the outskirts of town includes a sixteen piece series by Picasso donated by the artist in 1957. Avinguda Diagonal 686 About the life and museum of Malaga born artist Pablo Picasso You are here: Malaga > Top Attractions in Malaga > Malaga Main Buildings > Picasso Picasso The early years of the life of Pablo Ruiz Picasso are closely linked to Malaga, where he was born in 1881.

Family tradition also played a large part in shaping his character. His life and works would later see him become the most famous native of Malaga of all. This open, cosmopolitan city, birthplace of a unique artist and now a focal point for art and culture worldwide, will always remember Picasso as its favourite son. The Picasso Museum In 2003 the city of Pablo Picasso’s birth became home to the Museo Picasso Málaga which is a museum devoted to the artist. Picasso was born into the rich cultural heritage of Málaga, the beautiful Mediterranean port of Andalucia in southern Spain. Situated at geographical crossroads, Málaga has been an important city since before the days of ancient Rome, and the region was monumental in its impact on world culture. Picasso carried on this legacy and became an innovator of artistic styles and techniques, changing the course of modern art. The new museum has an extensive selection of works by the artist from the private collections of Christine Ruiz-Picasso, the widow of Picasso’s son Paul, and their son, Bernard. Their dedication to Picasso and his native city led to the creation of the Museo Picasso Málaga.

The permanent collection is complemented with temporary exhibitions that emphasize Picasso’s role in the art in the twentieth century. The museum was designed by Richard Gluckman of Gluckman Mayner Architects, with Isabel Cámara and Rafael Martín Delgado of Cámara/Martín Delgado Arquitectos and ARUP engineers, to unite traditional and contemporary architecture in a 89,350-square-foot museum complex. The Museo Picasso Málaga is an international centre for the arts, with large-scale galleries for temporary exhibitions, as well as an auditorium, education centre, library and archives, restoration facilities, bookstore, and gift shop. The Andalucian government funded the construction of the whole museum with Christine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso whp worked closely with the President and the Minister of Culture of the Junta de Andalucia throughout the museum’s development. Carmen Giménez, an internationally recognized curator of modern art, is the Director of the Project Museo Picasso Málaga. The museum opened in October 2003. A Personal Look at Picasso The permanent collection captures the extraordinary vision of Picasso.

More than 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and graphic works illuminate the entire breadth of his long and prolific career, from his first academic studies to his late paintings in the 1970s. The collection encompasses his ground-breaking innovations and the wide range of styles, materials, and techniques that he embraced. Several of Picasso's best-loved paintings are on display at the Museo Picasso Málaga. Many of these works have not been exhibited widely, and some have never been viewed publicly before. All are the generous donations and long-term loans from the private collections of Christine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. Christine Ruiz-Picasso is the widow of Picasso's eldest child, Paul, from his marriage to Olga Kokhlova; Bernard is the son of Christine and Paul. Their collections are not only private but personal: this is the art that Picasso gave to his family, and the art that he kept for himself, to be inherited after his death. The Museo Picasso Málaga will chart each stage in his development as an artist with a chronological display of works. Two separate galleries show works on paper, and one room is devoted to sculpture and ceramics.

Pablo Picasso - Biography - IMDb Pablo Picasso Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trivia (11) | Personal Quotes (14) Overview (4) 8 April 1973 , Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France (lung and heart failure) Birth Name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Mini Bio (1) Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of 20th century art, who co-created such styles as Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential, and prolific artists of all time. He was born Pablo Ruiz Picasso on October 6, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was an artist and professor of art at the School of Fine Arts, and also a curator of museum in Malaga, Spain.

Picasso began studying art under his father's tutelage, continued at the Academy of Arts in Madrid for a year, and went on his ingenious explorations of the new horizons. He went to Paris in 1901 and found the environment conducive for his experiments with new art styles. Gertrude Stein , Guillaume Apollinaire , and André Breton were among his friends and collectors. Constantly updating his style from the Blue Period, to the Rose Period, to the African-influenced Period, to Cubism, to Realism and Surrealism he was a pioneer with a hand in every art movement of the 20th century. He made some softer and neo-classic artworks during his cooperation with the Russian Ballet of Sergei Diaghilev in Paris. In 1917 Picasso joined the Russian Ballet on tour in Rome, Italy. There he fell in love with Olga Khokhlova, a classical ballerina from the Russian nobility (her father was a General to the Russian Tsar Nickolas II). Picasso painted Olga as a Spanish girl in his painting "Olga Khokhlova in Mantilla" to convince his parents for their blessing, and his idea worked.

Picasso and Olga Khokhlova wed in Paris, in 1918, and had one son, Paolo. After their marriage, Olga's high society lifestyle clashed with Picasso's bohemian manners. They separated in 1935, but remained officially married until her death in 1954. Meanwhile, his most famous lovers, Marie Therese Walter and Dora Maar, were also his inspirational models for a series of experimental portraits. Picasso was a pacifist. His outcry for peace was expressed in large-scale painting Guernica (1937), created after the German bombing of this Spanish city. This powerful composition, showing the brutal inhumanity of war, became his most famous work and turned him into a political celebrity. In 1940 Picasso applied for French citizenship, but was denied it, and remained Spanish. Protected by his fame, he was untouchable even to the Nazis in the occupied Paris. A skillful self-promoter, he used politics, eccentricity, and provocation as a selling tool. Sarcastic harlequin and dominating minotaur were his personal symbols, frequently used in his artworks.

His life turned into a PR campaign, playing with scandals; viciousness to his own children, exaggerated virility and beastly treatment of his women. However, he was forgiven by the public. Even his membership in the Communist party and his controversial comments about Joseph Stalin , who awarded Picasso the Stalin Prize for Peace in 1950, were ignored by his admirers. His life-long extraordinary artistic dialogue with Henri Matisse took a form of a "visual conversation" and exchange of their paintings with mutual respect. After WWII he returned to "classical" style and created the "Dove of Peace". An innovator and a multi-faceted personality, Picasso dominated the 20th century Western Art, spreading his influence beyond art into many aspects of culture and life. In his several film appearances Picasso always played himself. His lifestyle remained as bohemian and vivacious as it was in his youth. Picasso died in style while entertaining his guests at a dinner party, on April 8, 1973, in Mouglins, in southeastern France.

Picasso's last words were "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more." He was interred at Castle Vauvenargues' park, in Vauvenargues, Bouches-du-Rhone, in the South of France. Pablo Picasso's paintings rank among the most expensive artwork in the world, establishing a price record with $104 million sale of "Garson a la pipe" in 2004. Picasso produced over 13 thousand paintings or designs, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34 thousand book illustrations and 300 sculptures, becoming the most prolific artist ever. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov Spouse (2) ( 12 July 1918 - 1954) (her death) (1 child) Trivia (11) Born at 11:15pm-LMT An estimated 350 of his works have been stolen, more than any other artist.

He has had more auction sales than any other artist: as of May 1999 his works had been sold 3,595 times for a total worth of $1.23 billion. His most valuable painting was "Femme aux bras croises" (1902), sold for $55.6 million at Christie's on 8/11/2000, making it the most valuable painting made in the 20th century. More of his paintings--190 of them at last count--have sold for over $1 million than those of any other artist. Recognized as the world's most prolific painter by the Guinness Book of World Records: during a career that lasted 78 years he produced an estimated 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics, making a total of 147,800 works of art. One son by wife Olga, a Russian ballerina: Paulo Picasso, born 1919.

Picasso's liaison with Marie-Thérèse Walter produced one daughter: Maya Widmaier Picasso (aka "Maya (Maria de la Concepcion) Picasso"), born 1932. Another liaison with artist Françoise Gilot produced Claude Picasso (born 1947) and Paloma Picasso born 1949. He is the subject of the songs "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" by Wings , "Pablo Picasso" by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers and "Picasso and Me" by Gretchen Peters (which is written from the point of view of Picasso's cat). He is also mentioned in the song "Big Wedge" by former Marillion singer Fish (a UK Top 40 single in 1990).

A Rose Period Picasso that Gone with the Wind (1939) financier John Hay Whitney had bought for $30,000 in 1950, "Boy With a Pipe," was auctioned off in 2004 for a record $104.2 million, the proceeds left over from the $93-million bid price to fund the charitable Greentree Foundation established by his wife Betsey Cushing Whitney after his death. Was a Communist, ironic in light of his being the world's wealthiest artist at the time of his death in 1973, leaving an estate valued at between $100 million and $260 million ($442 million and $1.15 billion in 2005 dollars). Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation - Museum and Birth Place - euromuse.net Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation - Museum and Birth Place in short Museum, Exhibition Hall and Documentation Center at the Birth House of Picasso.

The aim of this institution is the difussion of the knowledge about Picasso's work and life, so as his artistic and cultural environment Museo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation - Museum and Birth Place in detail The Foundation Pablo Ruiz Picasso is structured in the form of a triple hub consisting of a Reference centre with material from international sources, specialized in Picasso, the organization of multi-disciplinary activities, designed to spread information about contemporary art taking as its reference point the figure of Picasso, around which all the activities are organized, and finally, the Birthplace Museum, which is the heart of the institution and which is responsible for establishing it as a tourist attraction on a worldwide ranking of the first order.

During the first twenty years of its existence, the Foundation has held more than 100 art exhibitions, organized more than 150 conferences on Picasso and the contemporary creative art scene, given by national and international experts in the field, organized 150 lectures on the Málaga-born artist in teaching and community centres in Málaga, published catalogues and books that have exceeded 100 volumes, held fourteen editions of the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Grant for the Expressive Arts, seven sessions of the Aula Picasso, which runs a monographic course on Picasso, with a more specific focus on the international scene, and organized to coincide every year with the anniversary of Picasso’s birth, twenty one Picasso October venues, offering a rich and varied range of cultural activities centering on the figure of Picasso and elements relating to the artist. When the Foundation Pablo Ruiz Picasso opened its doors to the public in 1988, it did not have at that time any works of art in its possession nor did its priorities include forming a collection. However, during the twenty years it has been in existence, the Foundation Pablo Picasso has managed to assemble a collection of art works comprising more than four thousand pieces from more than 200 different artists.

To search for the origins of this collection is to trace the history of the Foundation itself. The fact that it is located in the Birthplace of Pablo Picasso has encouraged those who have intimate links to the artist to express their interest and support for the institution, which they have demonstrated by making donations of art works; such is the case with Marina Picasso, the painter’s grand-daughter who, a year after the public inauguration of the Birthplace Museum, donated a portfolio containing original engravings by Picasso entitled “Sueño y Mentira de Franco” (Dream and Lie of Franco), etching and aquatint, in 1937, in which irony and biting criticism combine forces around an iconography that forebodes the emblematic work “Guernica”. Similarly, one of the donations that undoubtedly marks a key note in the collection comes from Christine Picasso, the artist’s daughter-in-law who, on one of her first visits to Málaga, in October 1992, and with her thoughts probably already turning towards the idea of a future museum in our city, brought with her ten books illustrated with original graphic work.

This is a magnificent collection which perfectly demonstrates Picasso’s mastery of the different techniques of engraving and the approaches he was making towards the world of literature. The journey through the graphic work of Picasso is extended thanks to successive acquisitions, by which our aim is to offer the visitor a general view of different periods, styles and techniques relating to the Malaga-born artist in the form of a notable collection of graphic work produced by Picasso between the years 1905 and 1971, which has been increasing from year to year until becoming one of the most complete and varied collections in the country. Added to this diverse collection of engravings, which includes several hundred works, and worthy of mention, is the interesting selection of ceramic artistry, in which we find the artist’s favourite themes. Also, the Fundación possesses some works of a sentimental nature which are related to the artist’s biography, donated by his sister’s children, the Vilató family. Here we find a close and intimate Picasso emerging from a collection of images taken of the Málaga-born artist by the photographer of Hungarian origin, Juan Gyenes, who visited Picasso in 1953, 1957 and 1961.

The testimonial value of this collection is thrilling and offers us images of the painter in his daily life, at work, in his studio-workshop, with his family… But without a doubt, the crowning glory of the Foundations’ collections is drawing book nº 7, containing preparatory sketches made by Picasso for his 1907 masterpiece: Las Señoritas de Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon). Drawing book nº 7 is one of 16 drawing books and several individual sketches that Picasso made as preparatory work for the painting that was to mark the origin of Cubism. Amongst the 60 sheets of white lined paper, while in Paris between the months of May and June 1907, the artist produced a total of 84 drawings using China ink, graphite pencil and red gouache.

The subjects of these drawings, treated in an abundant variety of forms, are animal profiles, amongst which the most notable examples are an eagle that occupies the cover and the first pages, female nudes that undergo a process of increasing schematization in which the figures resemble models of African art, “Catalonian Castellers”, which constitutes the only known appearance of this element in the corpus of Picasso’s works, rough sketches of still life subjects treated in a proto-Cubist manner and a portrait of Raimonde, the little girl he adopted for a time while living with Fernande Olivier. This wealth of iconographic material which combines his desires to innovate with adherence to Catalonian traditions and the presence of close and intimate references, converts this painting into a fascinating repertoire of Picasso’s works at a key and decisive point in his artistic development. Apart from its fund of works strictly relating to Picasso, the Foundation is also the owner of an important collection of contemporary art by Malaga artists as well as a broad selection made up of more than 2,500 works, of Spanish and International graphic work of the 20th Century with artists such as Miró, Christo, Francis Bacon, Joan Brossa, Max Ernst.

Tapiès, Chillida, Perejaume, Jaume Plensa, Dokoupil, Guayasamin, Guiovart, Wifredo Lam, Matta, Henry Moore, Equipo Cronica, Pablo Palazuelo, Mompo, Eduardo Arroyo, Canogar, Manuel Rivera, Arman, Alfonso Albacete, Manuel Quejido or Marc Chagall. STUDY OF VISITS During 2007, the Foundation Picasso-Birthplace Museum received 101,273 visitors. The range of visitors showed that 50% are European, the most common nationalities being English, German, French and Italian. Spanish visitors make up 34% of which 20% come from Andalusia and 12% are from Málaga. The rest are divided up with 8% belonging to the American Continent, 7% of Asiatic nationality and 1% from other countries. During 2008 we have received 122.000 visitors.

Picasso's Birth House It was almost a century after the Ruiz Picasso family was to leave the building currently occupying nº 15 of the Plaza de la Merced in the city of Málaga, when on the 25th March 1983 the property would be declared a Historical- Artistic monument of National Interest. However, it was not until the 26th February 1988 that the Málaga City Council would set up the Foundation Pablo Ruiz Picasso, with its headquarters located in the house where the Málaga artist was born. During those initial years, the Foundation occupied only the first floor flat, precisely the place where Picasso was to be born on the 25th October 1881, in that historic building. It was almost a century after the Ruiz Picasso family was to leave the building currently occupying nº 15 of the Plaza de la Merced in the city of Málaga, when on the 25th March 1983 the property would be declared a Historical- Artistic monument of National Interest.

However, it was not until the 26th February 1988 that the Málaga City Council would set up the Foundation Pablo Ruiz Picasso, with its headquarters located in the house where the Málaga artist was born. During those initial years, the Foundation occupied only the first floor flat, precisely the place where Picasso was to be born on the 25th October 1881, in that historic building. That space was to house together a small museum, a functions room, a reference centre and the offices of the Foundation. Despite having to operate from modest installations, the Birthplace was officially admitted into the Spanish Museum System by the Ministry of Culture on the 20th February 1991, whilst receiving from the very moment of its public opening, the support and friendship of the Picasso family, shortly after to be demonstrated in the form of donations.

As a result of the increase in its activities and the rise in the number of visitors to its installations, the Foundation Pablo Ruiz Picasso closed its doors to the public in order to carry out comprehensive renovation work on the Birthplace building, the culmination of which was the reinauguration by their Royal Majesties King Juan Carlos the First and Queen Sofia, on the 22nd June 1998. Thanks to this renovation project, the Foundation, by extending its premises to occupy the whole building, was able to increase the surface area of its installations five-fold whilst raising the number and the quality of its activities and bringing about a significant increase in the number of art works comprising its collection. Admission Trip Recap: The City Picasso Was Born In – Malaga, Spain | candies & crunches Trip Recap: The City Picasso Was Born In – Malaga, Spain When my brother and I flew from Paris to Malaga, we didn’t have any expectations. We had about 6-8 hours to spare before taking a bus to Seville, Spain. I mean, even in our guidebook, there was barely anything written about this city. The moment we landed at the airport, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of surrounding mountains and the endless Mediterranean sea.

I knew that the day ahead was promising! Our commute to the bus station was super easy and fast: All we had to do was to take a train from the airport. Not even 15 minutes later, we were there. I got changed into lighter clothes *it was +31 Celsius compared to +8 in Paris* and checked in my luggage into a locker. Conveniently, all major attractions were within a walking distance from the bus terminal. Without any hesitation, my brother and I picked up a map and headed to the nearby port. *It was soooo refreshing to wear a dress for the first time this year!!!* There was quite a bit of people trying to get us to sign up for a boat ride, but they weren’t too pushy. I definitely appreciated it. Right next to the port, we discovered Playa de la Malagueta. The water was very cold, but this didn’t stand in my brother’s way to jump in for a short swim *a very bad choice in retrospective*. As he was showing off/taking videos of himself swimming on his GoPro *I love you nevertheless!!! Haha!* , I took in beautiful surroundings while sitting on the warm sand.

I must assure you that it didn’t take too long for me to feel the burn. Thankfully, my brother was pretty cooperative, and we went into the city in search of a sunscreen. *Silly, silly me for not bringing it with me. A long Canadian winter definitely messed with my head! Haha!* By the time we found it and walked around some more, we were REALLY hungry! Without giving it too much thought, we turned into the first street. It turns out, it one of the best decisions we made that day. The entrance to the Alcazaba of Malaga was right there! We rested a bit while consuming a big amount of food which was very welcome and went to explore the citadel that was built in the early eleventh century by the Hammudid dynasty. The Moorish architecture is very different from what I’d ever seen. That being said, the Alcazaba is very well preserved, and it was super interesting to explore because it was almost like a labyrinth. All we wanted to do was to reach the top, but kept on getting lost. *Which was lots of FUN too!* I also appreciated the amount of detail. Look at the floors!

I can’t even imagine the amount of time and number of people it took to finish this project. *They were like this EVERYWHERE!* The fortification overlooks the port and I consider myself lucky to have witnessed this view. We were short on time and had to go back to the bus station but wouldn’t give up on this adventure. So it took some sprinting up hill to make it to the top. Needless to say, I was super happy to see this canon. *It was super comfy too! Haha!* When I looked around, I was in love. Let me tell you this. When later on I found out that Picasso was born in Malaga, I wasn’t a bit surprised that he grew to be a genius. There is so much beauty around, it’s unbelievable!

Question: In which city was Picasso born?
Answer: Malaga